Cleome, _ TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA, 129 
The seeds are much used by the natives, chiefly the brah- 
mins, in their curries; they are sold in all our bazars, at a 
very trifling price. 
4. C. diffusa, Roxb. 
Diffuse, annual, hispid. Leaves ternate. Flowers axilla- 
ry, solitary, regular, hexandrous. Siliques sessile. 
A small, spreading, annual species, common on rich cul- 
tivated lands, and such as have been lately in culture; it ap- 
pears and flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. 
Stem annual, diffuse, ramous, about a foot long, armed 
with many small inoffensive prickles, Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, terminate. Leaflets wedge-formed, or oblong, glan- 
dular, having the middle nerve and margins scabrous, about — 
ene half or three quarters of an inch long, and one quarter 
broad. Flowers axillary, solitary, peduncled, small, pale 
yellow. Stamens six. Germ sessile. Style short, cylindric. 
Stigma umbilicated. Si/ique tapering towards both ends. 
Seeds scabrous. , 
5. C. menses: Willd. iii. p. 571. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves simple, lanceolate, cordate, 
villous, Flowers hexandrous. — x? ; 
Tsjeru vela. Rheed. Mal. ix.t. 34... sai 
Sinapistrum Zeylanicum, &c. Burm. Zeyl. t. 10. SK Ries 
A native of the Coromandel coast, kc. Isin flower during 
the rainy and cool seasons, 
Root annual. Stem erect, ramous. Pranches alternate, 
expanding, round and villous. Leaves alternate, entire, soft, 
with short pellucid hairs ; the inferior ones petioled, lanceo. 
late-cordate ; the superior ones floral, sub-sessile, and of a pa- 
rabolic form... Stipules none. Flowers pedicelled, small, of a 
pale pink, solitary on the exterior axills, and on simple ter- 
minal racemes. Bractes no other than the floral leaf above- 
mentioned. Calyx of four equal, ensiform, erect, hairy, ca- 
ducous: leaflets, _ Petals four, arranged on the upper side, 
= linear-oblong, obtuse, elevated on claws, nearly as long as” 
the lamina. Fi laments six, Cue about as long as the 
— YOR. 11, Q- 
